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The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

— Jerry Lewis

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

You have to have wonderful actors for material, particularly difficult material that requires complicated performances.

— John Wells

I come from a tradition where the writer writes a play for the actors, rather than for himself, and the dialogue is made to work onstage, so it needs actors to help shape it. So you never get a play right straightaway.

— Lee Hall

What the actor is in private life, he is to a large extent on the stage, because he cannot conceal himself and his true personality from his audience.

— Leslie Howard

The actor has to develop his body. The actor has to work on his voice. But the most important thing the actor has to work on is his mind.

— Stella Adler

So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that he can say, 'oh yeah - that's a great point.' And you never know; often you can help far more than you think you can, because there's so much more that he's juggling than an actor.

— Christian Bale

One of my favorite actors is Paul Newman. He could tell so much with a single look, whereas some actors would need an entire five page monologue to give off the feeling of what he could say with just a single look.

— Ryan Kwanten

I try to get the best performance an actor can give.

— Taylor Hackford

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor-to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.

— Laurence Olivier

✗Opposing Perspectives

Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.

— Brian Binnie

The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue.

— Kevin Smith